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Anna Cardwell’s widow says that living in the home that the couple shared led “constant memories” of his loss.
In an exclusive interview with people, Eldridge Toney reflected on their decision to move more than a year after death by his wife.
Cardwell died at the age of 28 in December 2023 after she was diagnosed Step 4 adrenal cancer Previous January.
“When we moved to that place, it was when she started the cancer trip,” Toney recalls. “And when he was in that house it was just a constant reminder of cancer.”
“Every day I would get off work, I would just go to my room and just quite close myself,” he continues. “It came to a point where it just, I couldn’t do it anymore.”
Toney says that the new surroundings in his new home, where he moved in February 2025, led to a positive change.
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“Moving to the new house was probably one of the best things I could have done,” says Toney, who shows up on the current season in Cardwell’s mother’s series Mom June: Family crisis. “Because it was just like a new start and just like seeing new things and being in a new home. It wasn’t a constant reminder of everything.”
In February 2024, Toney opened About finding the strength to go through his wife’s belongings that he had previously left untouched.
“I haven’t been to the bedroom because everything was exactly how she left it,” he told People. “The last night we were actually in the bedroom the day before she decided to go to Hospice.”
“All the feelings that are tired of that room down there, especially with all her things like exactly what it was like when we were there …” he continued. “And it was just difficult to go down in the room, and I feel it was like an important thing that was kind of giving me anxiety for the house, but it was in the same sense.”
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However, Toney said he knew “it was time” to put away some of Cardwell’s things.
“We have two wardrobes in the bedroom and I folded all her clothes and put it in compartments and many other things that were important to her,” he shared. “I hung up her wedding dress and closed the door.”
At that time, Toney raised that he was not ready to sleep in their bedroom again.
“I will work against it,” he said. “It’s a process but some days I just go in there and go to bed. I won’t sleep, but I only spent some time there. I will continue to spend more time in the room so that when I make the decision to sleep there it will not be so right in my face.”
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The couple started dating 2017 after Cardwell’s divorce from ex-husband Michael Cardwell, with whom she welcomed daughter Kylee Madison 2015. Cardwell was also the mother of daughter Kaitlyn ElizabethBorn 2012.
Cardwell and Toney married March 4, 2023 in Wilkinson County, Georgia.
Toney opened to people about His sadness Days after the loss of his wife. “It keeps hitting me again,” he said. “It will be very different.”
Toney added that the idea of ”going back to our home without Anna and without the girls” was “hard to process. It will be very lonely. It will be harder.”
Mom June: Family crisis Airs Fridays at. 20 et on We TV.